Maleix

Alt+H is good for selling your buildings/ships (Scuttling).

[quote]Scouts don't really provide benefit over a light frig for scouting purposesVasari scout can capture resources[/quote] Scouts can also get into a jump faster and are not affected by anything that slows jumping. Not to mention.. the best thing of all is you can right click their auto-explore and never have to pay attention to them again.

[quote]Wasted research on one or two techs if you didn't need volcano/ice3)Nope, because I'm going to colonize 7 or 8 planets in the first 20 minutes of the game. That technology will be needed. Odds are in your favor.If you do colonize two planets immediately, they will actually drain your economy until you can upgrade themNope, because you simply cash in the metal that you are producing to raise the cash to upgrade the planets.If your enemy finds you at this point you are in a lot of trouble

Thank you! These have helped me out a lot I learned a couple things that you don't learn from tutorials or the instruction manual.